I just returned from a research trip to Adair and Boone County Iowa. I found a couple of pieces of information that indicates that G-G-Grandfather Dewit C (Clinton?) Hodges was born in Albany New York October 22, 1830. He moved to Peoria County Illinois just prior to his marriage to Sarah Moody Hitchcock (born in North Hampton Mass) on October 8, 1854. Their oldest son was William Clinton Hodges who was born July 24, 1856 in Alexandria Kentucky. I have searched the census films for 1860 and 1870 and can find no mention of Dewit and Sarah in Illinois. The rest of their children were born in various Illinois counties (I.e. LaSalle, Marshall and McLean). Does anyone else have Hodges in Albany New York circa 1830? Terasa